MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Based on
its recent analysis of the medical imaging workflow solutions
market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Merge Healthcare with the
2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Healthcare
Innovation of the Year for the Clinical Imaging Management System
(CIMS™) for use in clinical trials and medical research.

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While medical imaging can be a powerful and highly effective
tool in evaluating the efficacy of different treatments, it has
never been fully utilized in clinical trials mainly due to
intrinsic challenges. These challenges include transporting vast
amounts of imaging data between the numerous facilities involved in
a trial, and managing a complex workflow involving multiple readers
and various stakeholders. However, Merge Healthcare is one of the
few imaging informatics vendors in the healthcare industry that has
been able to successfully exploit the growing niche market for
medical imaging clinical trials.

Merge Healthcare leveraged the decades of industry expertise it
developed with image and information management, as well as the
image transmission and submission expertise acquired from providing
teleradiology solutions, to reach a position where the mid-2009
acquisition of etrials Worldwide, Inc. enabled the company to
develop the industry’s first truly integrated end-to-end solution
for imaging trial management with its CIMS™ platform.

“The stakeholders for clinical trials are often as scattered as
they are diverse, and technology and workflow solutions are just
one piece of this complex scheme, but it appears to be the key to
making the imaging trials more efficient, faster and less
expen

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